If true, this will be huge. I would think that sport cfi’s will be much more likely to stay around as instructors rather than being time builders toward commercial.Now with the ability to buy used 10 year old LSAs for reasonable prices, maybe there will be increased availability in more markets for instruction.

I find it interesting (and sad) that so FEW people even bothered to respond to these NPRMs. Our voice can matter.

There was one commenter that was against allowing sport pilot instruction time to count. The commenter was basically bashing the skills and ability of sport pilot instructors. The FAAs response to this commenter was good... basically "you're wrong".

Hambone wrote:So... as a CFI-S without a medical, my students can now count their dual time with me toward further ratings?

Reading the timeline, when changes to 61.109 take effect, it would appear that the rule goes into effect August 27, 2018.

I didn't see anything saying "only time logged after that date counts", so I assume all time counts, regardless of when it was logged?

Since this new ruling did not introduce new training requirements, not counting previously logged time would be inconsistent with the ruling itself - not that logic and consistency is something that federal bureaucracies strive for but still ...

Hambone wrote:So... as a CFI-S without a medical, my students can now count their dual time with me toward further ratings?

Reading the timeline, when changes to 61.109 take effect, it would appear that the rule goes into effect August 27, 2018.

I didn't see anything saying "only time logged after that date counts", so I assume all time counts, regardless of when it was logged?

Since this new ruling did not introduce new training requirements, not counting previously logged time would be inconsistent with the ruling itself - not that logic and consistency is something that federal bureaucracies strive for but still ...

Warmi wrote:Since this new ruling did not introduce new training requirements, not counting previously logged time would be inconsistent with the ruling itself - not that logic and consistency is something that federal bureaucracies strive for but still ...

FastEddieB wrote:Since when are “federal bureaucracies” inherently left or right wing?

You well know that's a right-wing point of view.

"We're going to shrink the federal government until it's so small we can drown it in the bathtub."

This Warmi guy can't make a post without adding such a reference. If he can make the comment, I can respond.

I think most of the people I know within the FAA are Right Wingers as you call them, but having dealt with them for most of my adult life it certainly is a bureaucracy that lacks common sense at times.